/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4123394
ropugh shapes are all . there keep rendering

>>4123429
i dont know how to help, but the face looks kinda bloated in the thumbnail

>>4123394
Use a brush with a harder edge and much more opaque opacity.

>>4123429

This would look better if we saw the other eye IMO. It just looks like you didn't know how to draw it and you're hiding it because of that. Drop/core shadows are really inconsistent so pay more attention to them.

I like everything else about it though.

1hr
Still fumbling around too much, I'll go back to simpler shapes for a bit

>>4123538
dude just literallu squint your eyes and draw what you see

>>4123520
I wanted to stay true to the commissioner's model, while fulfilling the semi-realistic style she wanted.

>>4123538
Use a bigger brush

>>4123538
indeed go back to simpler form
did you learn render from any source?

Quick plein air sketch. Mostly done with a palette knife

>>4123380
Well?

>>4123641
The horizon is kinda sloping there. Pretty neat otherwise. Love the attention to detail you have.

>>4123394
Lazy fucker

>>4123538
Bro you gotta learn how to draw before you sculpt. Post your line work, or your under drawing.

>>4123538
don't fuck around with that fuzzy brush you used on the breast, all you should need for a study like this is hard round + airbrush or something blocky for finishing touches

>>4123641
What program do you use? I saw you last two works and wonder how you get that much detail.

>>4123429
face is trash

>>4123644
Yea I see it now, I'll go back amd fix it, thanks for pointing it out.
>>4123685
Dude man bro, it doesn't matter what program you use, it's your skill level, I just make a larger canvas size to get it so everything isn't all pixels when I zoom and start to add details on Artflow since I'm on a samsung tab atm, you can do what I do in ms paint aswell.

>>4123697
I like this. I don't know if it's a shitpost, but it's funny. It's like the grim reality of an anime girl with tig ol biddies, how does she function in day-to-day life?

>>4123725
she just dont lie on her stomach when is time to sleep.

>>4123697
I really love the atmosphere in your work!
I can't describe it.....gloomy? Melancholy? I just love it. Is it intentional?

>>4123755
>I really love the atmosphere in your work!
Riiiight, the "atmosphere"

>>4123697

Anne Frank at Dr Mengele's

>>4123779
I mean I like how dark the settings are and then making the focus lighter helps draw more attention to it.
The tits are nice but that's not what I look at. I also like the hands, how spindley the arms are and how the doctor fades into the darkness.

>>4123786
I'm just fucking with you, anon.

Some rough faces from imagination. it's pretty difficult for me. Crit appreciated.

>>4123429
This is too good for /ic/, what's the catch?

>>4123786
but i want people to look at the tits!

I painted a fire hydrant a couple of blocks from my house.

where can i upload my practice sketches? i used to do it on a personal tumblr, but now with their nudity policy i can't.

>>4123848

Wait. I thought drawings of nudity were still acceptable.

>>4123380

>>4123855
they flag anything with nudity i believe, regardless of artistic merit

>>4123394
You would benefit from doing values before color and making those lines and shapes sharper instead of leaving it to a soft round line.

>>4123429
the face is really puffy looking... rather bland style. I'd look into trying to simplify your rendering. I think you're putting too much into it.

>>4123446
Forget about rendering and coloring. Learn more anatomy and how to construct a form. Legs should be around the same length as the crotch to the middle of the neck. The crotch area and upper torso looks bizarre. And dont bother drawing if you're going to replace nipples and vaginas with bandages. You arent terrible but you arent good and are making more mistakes than not.

>>4123538
stop using that fuzzy brush or push brush. You can easily transition values more easily by manual blending via sampling and opacity. This just looks amateur and messy. It's not bad but you are holding yourself back through cheap methods.

>>4123602
do some more value studies and try to refine shapes and textures more. I see a stream or brook but it's hard to discern more than a fielded hill. Good color selection though

>>4123641
not much to say here. I like your style. Decent contrast and composition. Some parts are a little messy however. I dont know what your process is, but it might benefit to put down the values first and once you have an image that looks palatable, then pen in details. I think your work would be astounding if you found a better sense of dimension and would bring it up a level.

>>4123697
the dimension outside of the characters upper bodies is a little off. The breasts also look a bit uneven on the pale girl. The values of the doctors skin could be fixed. A little muddy but I enjoy the scene

>>4123817
not awful, not much to say. I'd do more studies and not just post 3 faces with some odd strokes.

>>4123840
sense of dimension is great, a little skewed at the top, good values and colors. Makes the mundane subject more interesting. I dont understand the wobbly lines in the sidewalk, looks like theres water distorting light.

>>4123841
what's up with her mouth? alright values, bad colors. the brush makes the subject kind of disgusting. Too shiny, reminds me of giftwrap

>>4123946
mistook this for a photograph, good work. Try to clean it up and use a harder brush. It's a little fuzzy. Would be much more interesting if you didnt use a textured brush for the sheets, they look stained, and coupled with the fuzzy lines it makes the piece hard to appreciate.

>>4123979
fuck off retard, who the fuck asked you? Did algebra 2 not go too well for you today?

honestly whats the point of drawing anymore when you reach this god tier level.

i work over 70 hours a week and i'm still better than everybody here still. ahaha at your life.

double dino post

>>4124108
i like these.

>>4124087
lol no
this is alright, but a lot of these lines seem completely unnecessary and detract from the image rather then add to it. also, fucking fail at covering up your photobash @ the top left

What can I do to make this look more finished?

In the future I'm gonna try to learn to actually paint straight out of a sketch instead of doing the whole values->color->overpaint process. Should be more fun and quicker to boot

>>4124107
>>4124108
do you use a completely opaque brush on these? or do you build up color with multiple strokes?

>>4123538

Your biggest problem is that your values are off. Squint.

I couldnt quite get the eye to read how I wanted so I'm going to wait until it's dried a little and then try again. I think I need to start working on a bigger canvas, I can't get the details in that I want, not even with my smallest brushes.

>>4124151

I think you could use more edge variation and color temperature shifts to lift it to a higher level. Fun, though.

>>4123984
>I dont understand the wobbly lines in the sidewalk, looks like theres water distorting light.

Do you mean the crack in the sidewalk?

>>4124173
absolutely lovely colors and brushwork. have you tried using the pallet knife for getting the smallest strokes in? that's what i use, albeit, i work primarily on cardboard so my finished pieces are considerably rougher then something this polished

>>4124173
Cool mythical creature

>>4124173

That looks nice. Oil?

>>4123641
Anon to make your work god teir you need to get a more in depth understanding of perspective and make the tree branches less sloppy looking, I love when you post but it makes me so fucking mad that you haven't reached your full potential because you could go so far if you do, I've seen your work around on various websits and I know you can make it if you fix 1. Anatomy 2. Perspective. Please for the love of god work on them you could go on to do great things if you do.

Currently working on this one.

>>4124236
very smooth

>>4123641
your biggest mistake is that you don't apply textures with form in mind

>>4124206
I love this

>>4124087
lmao beglet, dont be so full of yourself

>>4123380
hey thats my art! thanks for featuring me!

quick 20 min sketch

>>4124081
lmao are you implying that you're god tier?

>>4124424
I think he's implying you have asperger's

>>4123685
>the program matters
Ngmi

>>4123986
(You)

>>4124434
nice projection there retard

>>4124424
I am god tier.

>>4124152
At max pen pressure the strokes are opaque, but normally i make strokes at partial pressure so i can colour pick the mixed colours

>>4124513
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>4123538
Ref looked fun, did a 30 min study from this

>>4124537
>fake laugh

why did I picture you crying irl?

>>4124543
Form is look solid, but why do so many of you insist on using these shitty low flow rounded brushes?
the lack of texture or proper blending is killing me, and I see so often on the board.

>>4124587
I don't know, but I see it and it's killing me too. Did l fall for the hard round meme.

This brush was my attempt to replicate hard round in CSP. What would you suggest instead?

>>4124566
because your ego is so huge it's blinding you so you have to imagine everything to your liking

>>4124595
I use Photoshop, so I'm not familiar with the selection of custom brushes for CSP. I suggest you experiment with other custom brushes.
This isn't to say you can't ever make good paintings with default rounded brushes, but you can get much better results with custom brushes imo.
Ones with irregular shapes are usually better for blending, but the point is to experiment more often with custom brushes.

Just finished off this drawing.

>>4124236
Back to working on sketching Samurai guy.

>>4124617
do you have any advice or tuts for making your own brushes in PS? i paint in there a lot & get pretty good results with hard round, airbrush, and various other defaults, but i'm wanting to experiment a bit more

>>4123538
Start much simpler.

>>4123380
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKfsZaNrmzM
Jesus Jeff

>>4124364
No one cares faggot

>>4124179

Thank you so much, I still have a fuckton to learn though, most of the time I have no idea what I’m doing.... Good tip, I will experiment with a palette knife, so far I only really use them to mix piles of paint.

>>4124180

Borzoi are unicorns amongst dogs.

>>4124185

Thank you! Yes, it’s oil paint on linen. I’m still pretty new to the medium, but it’s great to work with.

>>4124651
Hatching is kino. Very nice.

>page 3

>>4124876
i care you retarded no talent piece of shit

>>4123984
>>4123979
>when a /beg/ tries to give advice
Lmao

>>4123394
mes is back

0h boy i loved this one
from reference

>>4125073
'nother

>>4124595
when people say hard round they mean hard round with no opacity variation.

>>4125063
where is your advice? or are you just calling people /beg/ and feeling smug

>>4125073
Dude u suck.lmao

markers

>>4125200
I give better advice than you nub.

>>4125073
dont listen to the shitters, this is great

thoughts?

>>4125231
mods

did more to this self portrait from a while ago

>>4125224
still no advice

dont be a shitter

>>4125252
dope

>suck shit at drawing faces
>read a bit of loomis
>can get location right but not shape
Goddamnit lips, noses, and eyes are so challenging to draw in an appealing way

>>4123446
those band-aids look a little weird

>>4125265
really nice

bunch of copies from yesterday

>>4125442

Is that Michael Jackson?

kind of a paintsploration but I seriously need to grind backgrounds.

>>4125265
Garbage.

>>4125520

crab

>>4125265
Cool. Original. Seemed cropped at a weird place like tbere should be more picture, like it’s zoomed in

>>4124246
>>4125031
Thanks guys, here's some more progress of Samurai guy. I'm regretting choosing Samurai armour for my character, there is a lot of detail...and I have to ink over it all once I've finished the pencil linework...

>>4125682
Furry beglet detected. Cursed style.

>>4125686
I didn't understand any of that, other than Furry.
I'm apparently a Furry for drawing a demonic character, so this would classify as Furry these days according to you?

>>4125686
That isn't furry you dumb nigger. Don't be a crab.

>>4125699
>>4125706
do not respond to crab posts.
hide and report all crab posts.

working on this self portrait more

Shiva.

>>4125763
Fuckin nice anon. Not every day someone does Hindu stuff.

>>4125769
It’s actually pretty bad, samefag.

>>4125763
you should go back to learn fundamentals because your anatatomy isn't really good.
good job on finishing it i guess? there's a good amount of detail

>>4125763
Really good details, kinda shit anatomy dunno if the four arms thing threw you off or what but go back and re-work it a bit, personally I like it but most pros would shit on it.
>>4125769
>nice to see something hindu
Poo in loo pls go

Drew anime

>>4125769
It was a commisioned work, I don't usually do Hundu stuff at all lol but glad you liked it
>>4125787
My anatomy jas always been mediocre and I know that, that's why I'm taking NMA courses, belife me my stuff used to be high school weeb girl teir this is just results of 5 months of steve hudson vids but the fact that I had to do 4 arms on a guy kinda killed it that time, your right tho I need to hit the loomis more.
>>4125800
Pretty sure I went to too deep in the details without focusing on amatomy more, like I said above it was a first time thing and was pretty fucking hard desu, I was shocked it turned out li,e it did. Thanks for the tip tho, I'll hold off on commisions for a bit until I get more advanced unless I get asked first.

>>4125813
>focusing on detail more than form
Nigga, never do that shit lmao. And yea hold off on doing commisions until you know 100% that you have it down.
>My anatomy jas always been mediocre and I know that, that's why I'm taking NMA courses, belife me my stuff used to be high school weeb girl teir this is just results of 5 months of steve hudson vids
If thats true you've stepped up alot anon, just keep going, try going back to /beg/ for a bit and try to watch more Vipplu imstead of Hudson. What did the person who commisioned this pay you for that? Just wondering.

>>4123755
Her face is kinda grotesque, which gives you this feeling of unease. Combined with her big breasts your brain perceives the image as being melancholic.

>>4125763
The lower left arm is fucking killing me.

>>4125807
Is this what you degenerates want?

>>4125863
No I just want some good fucking art

>>4125863
>that thumb
oooooooooo AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AHH -AAAAAA II'M COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

etc. etc.

>>4125863
how about drawing something decent instead of trying to pander?

>>4125949
Pandering is how you make it.

>>4125763
What's up with his skin?

>>4125714

lol

>>4125974
tried to fix the orientation.
t. phonefag

landscape photo study

>>4125863
>draws garbage anime lewds with wobbly lines, no sense of form or anatomy
>calls others degenerates

>>4125964
>not knowing that Shiva is covered in ash
t. Poo

>>4125762
Just posting a bit of progresso on this piece from another thread. I wanna push myself to actually finish something for once

Almost done with the inks. Anything to fix before I finish them up and start cleaning up/thickening the lines?

>>4126083
Ooo very nice. Interesting choices

Anime

>>4125451
good atmosphere

>>4126056
Another color pencil bird I drew before the parakeet I just finished

>>4123380
just drew this

>>4126095
we're all /beg/ here anon, you should leave this place by now

>>4123380
Political art but that's fine.

Accidentally making a zombie

>>4123380
Tell me how (not) bad I am.

>>4126435
>When the term Chinese Cartoons get taken literally.

gonna get back on the art stuff after a couple of years of nothing at all. this is my current powerlevel. not as terrible as I expected, about the same as when I stopped, but a bit worse than my best.

I guess art-skills dont decay that much.

help

>>4125711
fuck off.

>>4124596
ego too big? thats not a problem dude. having no ego would be disastrous. I don't think ego blinds somebody from seeing how god tier they are. I've been gifted with divine knowledge.

>>4126435
That's fucking terrible
>>4126443
>samefag

>>4126435
That's really shit, go to /beg/ and learn how eyes and arms work, stylzation isn't a exuse for not knowing basic shit.

>>4126475
keep up the dick sucking and drugs. its working

>>4126083
fucking amazing.

>>4124087
>>4124173
>>4124365
>>4125265
>>4126083
how to summon the lurking artists 101

>>4125863
yes.

>>4125699
Polnareff?

>>4125444
yes

>>4126656
AAAAAHHHH I WANT AN ELLE GF SOOOO BAAAAADDDD

>>4124087
the fallen part of the bridge looks like it showing its middle finger while its feet are still in the air being all like "u know what fuk dis shit i aint bein a bridge no more

>>4126095
unless this is intentional, her left eye looks slightly more closed than the right one, giving a "smile through tears" expression

trying to build up line confidence, don't have much mileage on digital
no ref

a lot of great art in this thread

made this for an anon

>>4126943

Adorable. I want to see more.

>>4127061
Looks great, makes me imagine some epic story about pagan gods or something along the lines.

Too bad about the gay furryshit on top of an other vice great work.

>>4127061
I will never understand why furry artists are always really great at painting, then again it's probably confirmation bias to the extreme

>>4127105
thank you for the kind words
>>4127084
thank you. personally i dont think the furry aspect is too bad here, its a fantasy painting, and i like to think a race of savage wolf pagans is a pretty cool concept.

>>4127061
another talented artist lost to furshit

idk

>>4127061
nice, but u better not make the sky absolute black cause it kinda kills focus and perspective rules

>>4127190
can u explain im not familiar

>>4127196
you must use absolute black for ambient occlusion, parts where is no light, moreover in the paintink u must usedark bright colors for nearest objects so the become more 3 dimensional, and when the objects are far the lose brightness because of the atmosphere, although u may didnt mean there is an atmosphere in ur painting, its also the main rule to make objects look convex

>>4127204
i think i get it. u are suggesting i shouldnt have any bounce light because its pitch black out. i considered that but i guess i took some privileges

>>4127264
Going for an "Origin Myth" type thing

>>4127266
I think this one's a little busy, should I thin out the stars a bit?

>>4127268

Drew an islandy girl

>>4127124
>talented

what is a good place to post the stuff I draw?
I guess tumblr doesn't allow porn anymore and deviantart seems outdated

>>4127492
Twitter

>>4127492

post it everywhere
the guys that I see have the most follows always have like at least 5 sites they post on

how do I git good?

assume I'm an unpracticed guy with a lot of natural talent. I can pretty much draw what I see with decent accuracy. I just want to be able to draw people/things around me better (I watched a kim jung gi video), what terms do I search to start active learning? I get I need to master anatomy

>>4127604

>anatomy

Get Michael Hampton.

Fuck plants man.

>>4127604
Post work and we'll tell you what to work on, maybe you're overconfident, but maybe not, we can't tell just by words

gn girl, see ya tomorrow

>>4127659
same, i wanna fuck your plants too.

>>4127659
>slutty.png
>fuck plants
nice

>>4127666
I'll post tomorrow. My brain-to-paper ability is just pretty good. Grade school art teachers thought I was gifted and all that

>>4123697
God that's hot.

pouty samurai

>>4127788
THAT LOOKS GREAT, What software do you use?

>>4123697
The big boobed girl reminds me shiftymine
I love it

handsome squidward

>>4127884
thanks, I used paintstorm

Going to be a painting.

Arno Breker bust I started months ago, should I finish it or should I wait till I get a bit better? R8, give advice and bully. (If this is sideways again, I don't know mang)

A Bargue plate I did a in April.

My first landscape based on a photo I took, also my first attempt with ink, should have used pencil for the whole thing because there are a lot of shaky lines and it doesn't look great.

>>4127954
Boy you sure squished it. In April

>>4127997
I know I mad it bit narrow, but I didn't think it was too bad. How bad is it?

>>4124905
>I’m still pretty new to the medium, but it’s great to work with
What medium did you use before? I'm curious to see some other stuff you made.
I like your doggo very much

>>4128046
whats with the dumb logo on the bottom

>>4123697
me like ruan jia me like his dark values so i steal hehehe me like his nose huuuuurrrrrr

>>4127190
features are aligned just not her jaw, also dont render the whole thing with a hard edge, use soft edges, lastly avoid glazing with a million strokes like youre doing here, it look like shit. atleast with hard edges brushes, softer edge ones are more pleasing.

Anything else to touch up before I begin the edgework/rendering and whatnot?

>>4128082
youre afraid to push your bounce light reflected light and just have this shitty rim light, neck shouldnt be that dark, light would be diffused there, that sharp reflected light on her jaw makes no sense since no other area on her shadows are that bright besides the rim light. nose is too small with ugly fat lips, totally fine if this is a caricature. hair shouldnt be that dark, light is hitting it. unless her shoulders are pushed upwards those tits are way too low, or she has massive shoulders, im looking at her armpit for a refrence point..her ears are pushed back way too far and are not symmetrical in terms of where shes facing, so there should be more space between the two.

>>4128003

>>4125451
Another one tonight
>>4126260
Thanks!

>>4127954

The point of bargue plates is you learn to measure and get its proportions perfectly. You failed, hard. Do it again.

>>4127957
Pretty fucking great anon, the windows are kind of misshapen on some of the buildings, but your detailing/shading is really lovely to look at, and you really feel the perspective as it should be.

>>4127954
My atelier instructor would have ripped you a new asshole. This is sloppy garbage. Start over and sppend a couple of hours of just getting the measurement rights

First round of touch ups.

>>4128115
make all the greys or whites brighter

>>4128128
there is no saving that face from the uncanny valley

>>4128128
if you insist on keeping that logo can you make it not look bad. just make a condensed smaller font, it really takes away from your drawing

>>4128128
add highlights to face and hair, make it look lifeful

>>4128126
>My atelier instructor would have ripped you a new asshole.
And I would have bent your instructor over and had you and the rest of the class suck my cream out of his asshole, dumb cunt.

>>4128128
I tried to do a quick paint-over to help you fix face features and your lighting. You should see under the chin with this angle, also nose should be much bigger. Don't work on black background, it really sucks for the rest of your values. Your colors are overall way too equally saturated, bad habit. You should apply more color shifting theory and avoid same tones everywhere. Hope this helps, keep it up !

>>4128154

This is an excellent overpainting. I'm not the OP btw.

I don't think you should ever work on a black/white background either. Even if the end result needs to be BW you should have a placeholder BG and cut the character out in the end. You need to get that ambient light from the surroundings early on or the whole piece will look extremely unnatural. Obviously it's kind of messy because you did it quickly but the thumbnail is so much more vivid and I think you should have something more painterly like this in the beginning and start tightening up the details when you've got the lighting/colors set. It's the first impression that counts with stuff after all.

Thanks for keeping /ic/ decent.

>>4128154
Equally desaturating the illustration is just ad bad. You still dont know how fix your valurs mr ruan wana be. You just abuse the same brush that just looks awful when you use it. The illustration was fine before you didt have to flex ur shitty painting skills to demonstrate saturation or "color shifting" lol. All you did for the lighting was exaggerate the rim light which he removed. There is also nothing wring with illustrations on a black backgrounf. Not everything has to have a shit smeared background.

>>4128154
Equally desaturating the illustration is just as bad. You still dont know how fix your values mr ruan wana be. You just abuse the same brush that just looks awful when you use it. The illustration was fine before you didt have to flex ur shitty painting skills to demonstrate saturation or "color shifting" lol. All you did for the lighting was exaggerate the rim light which he removed. There is also nothing wring with illustrations on a black background. Not everything has to have a shit smeared background.

>>4128185
>>4128154
this is how you paint with that brush you dork

>>4128202
Highly impressive, Anon. Next time I'll make sure to avoid giving any advice and not waste any time doing a paint-over when professionals like you are here to help others.

>>4127160
thats just too much

>>4127264
>ambient occlusion
>>4127266
>>4127268
>>4127270
the weird part is that i kinda like it

>>4128080
thanks

>>4128099
Thanks, I couldn’t tell it was that off even when I looked at them side-by-side, I’ll have to make gifs like that in the future.

>>4128119
Should I switch to basic proportion training instead? That particular drawing was one I pushed out in a few hours. It may be cope, but I feel if I were to spend more time and not be as rushed doing it again I wouldn’t bugger it up so much. Maybe I’ll try it again this week.

>>4128123
Thanks, I tried to run it first with pencil and tried really hard to get the angles of the outsides of the buildings right, but I definitely buggered up when it came to the internal lines. The whole right side of the picture starts at a different point than the left but I’m glad you like my shading. It’s the one thing I’ve thought I could do decently with consistency.

>>4128126
Good thing I’m not in your studio then, sounds like you should have a talk with your instructor about sperging out so frequently.

>>4128128
>4128128
very nice and clean, make the eyes shiny. also your logo is ugly and detracts from the pic, huge eyesore lol.

>>4128277
That's just old school teaching my friend. Any ego you have about your drawing skills gets torn to shreds. Bargues are supposed to be grueling work and push you to your absolute limit, I'm just telling you to raise your standards. "sort of right" doesn't cut it with bargues, the accuracy you are looking for is in the fractions of millimeters. Good luck.

>>4128137
>the uncanny valley
I don't think you know what that term means...

>>4128099
This was super helpful. It shows my exaggeration of subtle curves and angles, it helped me realize mistakes much more than looking at a distance and comparing the two.

>>4128319
>Any ego you have about your drawing skills gets torn to shreds.
I’m not confident with my skills, I didn’t intend to state I was happy with that drawing, just that I thought it was okay. I thought there were many mistakes besides the narrowing of it before.
>Bargues are supposed to be grueling work and push you to your absolute limit, I'm just telling you to raise your standards.
My standards for my own work are higher than for others, I cannot preform to my standards so I take a little pride in things I consider okay. I know the three works I posted aren’t great but that’s why I’m here. You seem to understand that I am not only happy but defending my mistakes. Overall though I’m probably not ready for Bargue plates, I’m can’t draw a single thing from imagination and haven’t studied proportions or light. I should probably drop to easier lessons, yeah?

anyone have any good tips or tutorials for painting metal? i'm struggling here, even after re-doing this part multiple times with different types of refs.

Depends on the type of metal but Brad Rigney had some pretty fine tips for super tight weathered metal rendering, though it's not painterly at all:

https://embedy.cc/movies/VUFtc1dKRDRiSHBUY3FZdGppM2xhb29ielZTUm5idnpvb21LTGcrTjdBZz0=

They used to sell that tutorial but you can't buy it from anywhere anymore so I don't feel too bad for sharing it here.

Another good one is this series by Clint Cearley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wB5YA8tOVw

It's in 3 parts and you can find part 2 in the video description.

Hope these get you started. Just remember that it's a surface that's reflecting the environment around the subject depending on how reflective the material is so you absolutely need to know where the guy is standing to make the metal look believable.

Here are 3 more tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZeeTKCTs4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaQAK4UPSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJuyJJDXv1Y

Don't just copy any of these. Do some studies before you re-do it and come back with some knowledge instead of just trying out different things.

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Oh, and the part where Brad starts talking about rendering metal in the first video I posted is at ~23-25 minutes in the video.

>>4128359
>My standards for my own work are higher than for others, I cannot preform to my standards so I take a little pride in things I consider okay. I know the three works I posted aren’t great but that’s why I’m here. You seem to understand that I am not only happy but defending my mistakes. Overall though I’m probably not ready for Bargue plates, I’m can’t draw a single thing from imagination and haven’t studied proportions or light. I should probably drop to easier lessons, yeah?

I think you are more than ready. Just need to take your sweet time measuring proportions and relationships before you start adding value. On the positive side you are grouping values into distinct zones without the common temptation of going crazy with the bllending which leads me to believe you won't have too much trouble with the rendering aspect once you get the structure right.

>>4128479
>I think you are more than ready. Just need to take your sweet time measuring proportions and relationships before you start adding value
Thanks for the encouragement, I only draw very infrequently and don’t usually take compliments well. But I’ll keep trying.

>>4128456
not that anon but good shit, thanks.

>>4128126
Psh what hack teacher taught you? My atelier spends half a semester on lateral rectus exercises ALONE before you even THINK about moving your levator palpebrae superioris. Post your value studies faggot. That’s what I thought.

Working on this one some more.

>>4123946
Bit muddy in the leg area. Make sure to keep your color temperatures organized.

>>4126300
Saved

This is watercolor painted by me.

>>4128882
i like this alot
do you have a blog?

>>4127674

reduced resolution and filesize

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>>4128882
Are you the girl with buzz cut and big tiddies?

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>>4126620
Thanks, I wanted to incorporate the scouting emblem but it looked weird for some reason

>>4127909
noice

>>4128882
I really like your line

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>>4128785
Why are his testicles on his chest?

>>4128962
Lol fuck I can’t stop laughing

>>4128957
That nose >

drew a space mechanic. gonna color it tonight hopefully

>>4128957
>tfw the monitor is smaller than her tits

>>4128957
This is what I look like as I shitpost on 4chan

>>4129012
AAAAAHHH BE MY GF BE MY GF BE MY GF AAAAAAAAHHHHH I LIVED 21 YEARS WITH NO GF AAAAAHHHH GODDAMMIT I AM SO LONELY AND HORNY I DESERVE A BIG TIDDY ARMPIT GF NOW NOW NOW NOW NOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW

>>4129012
Consider suicide.

>>4128255
I have more

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I made this in 11 seconds

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>>4128946
thanks, no blog though.

>>4128895
uh, nope

>>4126685
KEK

>>4127160
>unironically using the blur tool

>>4129138
congrats you broke the record

>>4128456
thanks, man. I'll check all of this out. hopefully I'll be back with something that looks decent

drew some gangsters mugging a guy

>>4129140
Those toes are very long.

>>4127373
Face is bad, eyes are quite far apart.

>>4129203
It’s okay but the colour of the two muggers is way off.

>>4129140
Is this from a statue or a model? The overall sense is good, and detail forms on the face are good, but don't get so lazy with the hands and feet. It's clear from other areas of the work that you could be modeling them much better.

>>4129125
Forgot to say this is wip

>>4128409
Depending on how polished/reflective the surface is, you're painting either/and/or the local highlights/midtones/shadow as well as the scene around it deformed by the object's shape. Don't paint the object, paint what's nearby.

>>4125714
pls critique my work brian:
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Not goin too much for style yet just working on slow transition (I only practice every few months) from charcoal to paint. Hardest part is the handling & adjusting colors & values once they're already in. Always turns to a smudgy mess like on the tree. Bout halfway through on this one.

>>4129237
I wanted to make their skin off, before I adjusted the colors the main mugger was just straight up green, and the other guy was orangey yellow

>>4129140
you should consider one, I'd love to see more of your stuff

>>4129259
I looked at it earlier and thought the tree was the best part. reminded me of this painting I did.

just as a general rule of painting, the more individual colors you are observing and mixing the faster you will learn. Even if it makes your painting into a brown/rainbow mess it's not so much about that as it is getting the most out of each painting session.

Your drawing skill is your drawing skill, and is altogether separate from the skills involved in painting, because the main point of painting is color, and the more colors you are looking at and mixing on your palette, regardless of how it looks, the better a job you are doing.

That's the entirety of Impressionist painting theory, observe as much color as possible and apply it as tightly packed onto the canvas as you can. Whether you want to mix it or add washes after the fact is up to you, but when you are starting out with painting you Just. Need. Mileage. on mixing colors.

>>4128944
Damn. I fucked up that leg

>>4128944
Damn. I fucked up that leg

>>4129268
Thanks man

>>4128135
Thanks for the feedback, I was pretty close to true white but I was told using true white and black is bad in digital painting?

>>4129288
in all honesty it looks like you are thinking of 2d shapes rather than 3d forms and perspective... not saying there's anything wrong with drawing like that, but it really limits what kind of critique other people can give you outside of 'muh fundies' because you really are lacking.

>>4129282
I agree that you fugged up the legs a bit... I don't know how farther you wanted to take it, but you could just roll with what you have and move on... sometimes its better than being frustrated...

the metallic rendering on the sword and the holsters look awesome to be ache

Hey /ic/ I'm not done yet,what needs work before Final product?

>>4129321
needs soul.

>>4129323
Specify please? how so?

>>4129327
you can tell it is a dull drawing from the thumbnail alone... lacking soul can mean a lot of things, but it comes down to it being boring to look at i think

even bad and simple art can be appealing with enough soul. see attached

Yeah i agree I wan't to implement a simple background but in terms of the character what kind of dynamism can be applied for a better product?

>>4129333
dynamic lighting and rim light maybe? I dunno it's fundamentally boring. it's not terrible, technically, but it's like looking at cereal box art.

very rough but something like this?

>>4123380
I'm doing a series called High Spirits and I dunno if anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it

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first time trying a real composition with a background n everything and not just a character sitting in space

some things i wish i could change without having to redraw the whole thing but overall im liking how it's coming so far

I also tried to to a morbid Tarot series

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>>4129420
I really like the arrangement

It honestly reminds me of the Darksiders art a bit

Please post as you do more ^_^

Dropping this here.

new thread

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